Saturday, March 10, 2018

The Post on Coco and religion

How the Oscar-winning 'Coco' and its fantastical afterlife forced us to talk about death [in print as How Oscar winner 'Coco' can enliven talk of an afterlife].


In Disney/Pixar's "Coco," Miguel finds himself magically transported to the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead, where he meets his late family members, who are determined to help him find his way home. (Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Animation Studios)

Thursday, March 08, 2018

NPR's Morning Edition on movie adaptation of The Death of Stalin graphic novel

March 10: Jonny Sun at Politics and Prose original store

Jonny Sun - Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too — in conversation with Linda Holmes

Based on the Twitter account @jonnysun, Sun's book tells the winsome story of a lonely alien named Jonny, sent on a mission to observe Earth. As he encounters different sorts of Earthlings, Jonny experiences a range of emotions from anxiety to love. He comes to feel at home among his new companions, and his genuine interest encourages animals to open up to him. Writing from within his character's persona, Sun, who is also an architect, a designer, an engineer, an artist, a playwright, and a comedy writer, explores ideas of identity, friendship, and belonging. With charm, humor, and endearing typos he demonstrates the empathy and imagination that are perhaps humanity's most telling and valuable feature. Sun will be in conversation with Linda Holmes, writer and editor for NPR's entertainment blog, Monkey See, and co-host of the Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast.

This event is free to attend with no reservation required. Seating is available on a first come, first served basis.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2018

Sara Duke on C-SPAN 3/American History TV on Sunday, March 11 at 6 and 10 pm talking about Herblock

Sara Duke on C-SPAN 3/American History TV on Sunday, March 11 at 6 and 10 pm talking about Herblock

 

From the schedule: https://www.c-span.org/schedule/?channel=3

 

March 11 2018

6:00pm

American Artifacts: Herblock Political Cartoons

35 minutes

 

The Library of Congress houses the largest collection of political cartoons by Herbert Block, best known as Herblock. His career spanned 72 years and he covered presidents from Herbert Hoover to George W. Bush. Sara Duke, curator of Popular and Applied Graphic Arts, talked to us about his influence and legacy and showed us many of his cartoons, some on exhibit in the library's Herblock Gallery.

 

Express on Jessica Jones

It's only in the print edition, but it's probably on the Post's Comics Riffs blog originally ...

'Jessica Jones' is losing its edge
David Betancourt
Express March 7 2018, p. 25

Tuesday, March 06, 2018

A Conversation about Graphic Medicine at National Library of Medicine

A Conversation about Graphic Medicine

https://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?23736

    Air date: Thursday, March 1, 2018, 2:00:00 PM
Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local Views: Total views: 324, (296 Live, 28 On-demand) Category: History of Medicine Runtime: 01:19:00

Ward Sutton wins Herblock award

Ward Sutton is the winner of the 2018 Herblock Prize


WASHINGTON, DC, Monday, March 05, 2018 – Ward Sutton has been named the winner of the 2018 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.

Ward Sutton has been creating biting editorial cartoons for The Boston Globe since 2008. He experiments with size and format, often producing multi-panel cartoons that can read like a graphic novel. In 2010, his full-page “Tea Party Comics” won a gold medal from the Society of Publication Designers.

Sutton has also created cartoons for The New Yorker, The Village Voice, The New York Times, The Nib, In These Times, GQ, The Nation, Time, TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Fusion, MAD Magazine, and many more.
Sutton Impact: The Political Cartoons of Ward Sutton was published in 2005.

Stephen Colbert has said: “Ward Suttons satire doesnt just bite, it maims. Hes the perfect cartoonist for our discordant times.’’

Alarmed by the incoming Trump administration, Sutton drew a “RESIST” poster image and distributed it for free online in 2017. It was downloaded, printed, carried in marches all over the world, and later chosen by American Illustration in its annual competition.

Since 2006, Sutton has semi-secretly been the man behind Stan Kelly, the (fake) editorial cartoonist for the satirical weekly The Onion. His book, Kelly: The Cartoonist America Turns To (TM) was published in 2016.
In addition to cartooning, Sutton has created posters for Broadway, the Sundance Film Festival, and musicians such as Beck, Radiohead, Phish, and Pearl Jam. He has designed, directed and/or produced animation for HBO, Noggin and Comedy Central. His work has been recognized by The Society of Illustrators, American Illustration, The Society of Publication Designers, The Society for News Design, The Minnesota Page One Awards and The Art Directors Club.

Born in Minnesota, Sutton got his start cartooning for the Edina Sun community newspaper when he was in middle school. He continued at Edina High School’s Zephyrus and St. Olaf College’s Manitou Messenger before launching his first professional political strip, “Ward’s Cleaver,” in the Minneapolis alt-weekly, The Twin Cities Reader. Since then, he has lived in Seattle, New York City, and Costa Rica before finding his current home with his family in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The Herblock Prize is awarded annually by The Herb Block Foundation for “distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous independent standard set by Herblock.” The winner receives a $15,000 after-tax cash prize and a sterling silver Tiffany trophy. Ward Sutton will receive the Prize on May 9th in a ceremony held at the Library of Congress. Scott Simon, Peabody Award-winning correspondent and host of Weekend Edition Saturday on NPR, will deliver the annual Herblock Lecture at the awards ceremony.

Judges for this year’s contest were Ruben Bolling, author of the weekly comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug” and winner of the 2017 Herblock Prize; Jenny Robb, Curator of the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum at Ohio State University; and Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post and first woman to have received both the Reuben Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

The judges said “We were greatly impressed by the quality and breadth of submissions, with so much outstanding work being done in all types of political cartooning. But we felt that Ward Sutton's combination of strong artwork and sharp satirical writing stood out. Ward's art style has an appealing comic book look that includes a mastery of caricature within that context. He juxtaposes these attractive drawings with strong, urgent writing, setting up creative premises and wringing out of them cutting humor and provocative commentary that rise to the historical importance of today's issues.”

Steve Brodner, a satirical illustrator who has covered nine national political conventions for Esquire, The Progressive, The Village Voice and others, was named this year’s finalist and will receive a $5,000 after-tax cash prize. The judges said “Strong caricatures in editorial cartoons convey vital information to the reader about the character and motivation of a political figure. Steve Brodner's superior draftsmanship and effective use of caricature in his editorial commentary was well-represented in his portfolio and is exemplary of the high quality artwork of Herb Block and other legendary cartoonists.”

The Herb Block Foundation seeks to further the recognition and support of editorial cartooning: www.HerbblockFoundation.org.

Annapolis' Naval Institute Press publishing comics

Naval Institute Press Navigates to Graphic Novels

Mar 02, 2018
A version of this article appeared in the 03/05/2018 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Naval Institute Press Navigates to Graphic Novels
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/76210-naval-institute-press-navigates-to-graphic-novels.html

Disney voice actor David Ogden Stiers dies

David Ogden Stiers, 'M.A.S.H.' actor who became voice of Disney movies, dies at 75 [in print as David Ogden Stiers, 75; 'M.A.S.H.' actor, Disney films' voice]


Washington Post March 6 2018, p. B6
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/david-ogden-stiers-mash-actor-who-became-voice-of-disney-movies-dies-at-75/2018/03/04/ce3f27a0-1fc1-11e8-94da-ebf9d112159c_story.html

Monday, March 05, 2018

NPR & WAMU on Black Panther

What "Black Panther" Means To Washingtonians

Kojo Nnamdi Show,

https://wamu.org/story/18/02/27/what-black-panther-means-to-black-washingtonians/


Ghanaian Fans Have One Nit To Pick But Otherwise Adore 'Black Panther'

Tim McDonnell

NPR,

Superheroes Like Us: Boys Of Color At D.C. School Excited About 'Black Panther'


Can Marvel's New Superhero Bear The Weight Of Representation?

Gene Demby

NPR,


March 15: Library of Congress event with cartoonists

"In Conversation with the Librarian of Congress: Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists" featuring Whitney Sherman, Barbara Brandon-Croft and Jillian Tamaki
Thursday, March 15, noon
LJ 119, Thomas Jefferson Building

Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden will talk with a panel of women illustrators and cartoonists highlighted in the current exhibition and Library co-published book, "Drawn to Purpose." A book signing and exhibition tours will take place after the conversation in the Graphic Arts Gallery on the ground floor of the Jefferson Building.

Barbara Brandon-Croft is the groundbreaking creator of the comic "Where I'm Coming From," which ran from 1990 to 2005. She was the first African-American woman to publish a nationally syndicated comic strip. Featuring an engaging cast of African-American women, her feature brought a broad range of topical themes into the comics, including politics, history, race and gender issues, and relationships. She has since continued to use her artistic talent in activist pursuits that include illustrations for a guide for black teen girls by Franchestra Ahmen-Cawthorne entitled "Sista Girl-Fren Breaks It Down…When Mom's Not Around."

Whitney Sherman, director of the MFA Illustration Practice program at the Maryland Institute College of Art and an award-winning illustrator, has created a body of multifaceted work for national magazines, corporations and multiple book projects. She has also co-authored and co-edited a monumental new book, "History of Illustration," that covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the ancient to the modern.

Jillian Tamaki, an award-winning illustrator and comic artist, has in a short span of years produced an impressive volume and variety of creative work that includes three graphic novels, web comics, editorial illustrations for newspapers and magazines, portrait drawings of authors for the New York Times Book Review, book covers, posters and, most recently, her first children's book.

Additional events during the month will highlight the Library's wide array of collections and resources that enable life-long learning.

March 23: Curator’s Tour: Drawn to Purpose – Exhibition Highlights

Curator's Tour: Drawn to Purpose – Exhibition Highlights
Friday, March 23, 11 a.m.
Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building
In honor of women's history month, exhibition curator and Prints and Photographs Specialist Martha Kennedy will present highlights of the exhibition "Drawn to Purpose: American Women Illustrators and Cartoonists."

The Library of Congress is the world's largest library, offering access to the creative record of the United States—and extensive materials from around the world—both on-site and online. It is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Explore collections, reference services and other programs and plan a visit at loc.gov; access the official site for U.S. federal legislative information at congress.gov; and register creative works of authorship at copyright.gov.

Saturday, March 03, 2018

March 11: Speak The Graphic Novel at East City Bookshop bookclub

W(h)ine and Angst reads SPEAK:THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (re-scheduled from 3/16)

http://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/whine-and-angst-reads-speakthe-graphic-novel-re-scheduled-316

Event date: 
Sunday, March 11, 2018 - 4:00pm
Event address: 
East City Bookshop

645 Pennsylvania Ave SE

Washington, DC  20003

tel  202.290.1636

Join us this month to discuss Speak:  The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson.

The critically acclaimed, award-winning, modern classic Speak is now a stunning graphic novel.

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless--an outcast--because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. Through her work on an art project, she is finally able to face what really happened that night: She was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. With powerful illustrations by Emily Carroll, Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak: The Graphic Novel comes alive for new audiences and fans of the classic novel.


March 8: Penelope Bagiue at East City Bookshop

Pénélope Bagieu, BRAZEN: REBEL LADIES WHO ROCKED THE WORLD

http://www.eastcitybookshop.com/event/p%C3%A9n%C3%A9lope-bagieu-brazen-rebel-ladies-who-rocked-world

Event date: 
Thursday, March 8, 2018 - 6:30pm
Event address: 
East City Bookshop 

645 Pennsylvania Ave SE

Washington, DC  20003

tel  202.290.1636

Please RSVP on Facebook or at rsvp@eastcitybookshop.com

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With her characteristic wit and dazzling drawings, celebrated graphic novelist Pénélope Bagieu profiles the lives of these feisty female role models, some world famous, some little known. From Nellie Bly to Mae Jemison or Josephine Baker to Naziq al-Abid, the stories in this comic biography are sure to inspire the next generation of rebel ladies.

See Pénélope in conversation with deputy editor of The Lily, Neema Roshania Patel. 

 



The Lily is serializing BRAZEN, so you can get to know the work before the event!

See excerpts: 

http://bit.ly/2j6PcAD 

and

http://bit.ly/2AnoG0n


Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.


Friday, March 02, 2018

City Paper talks to Black Panther author

Local Author Jesse J. Holland Talks Writing Black Panther and Telling Black Stories

The Prince George's County writer and author will read from and discuss his Black Panther book at the National Press Club.


The Post on animation

Bud Luckey, Pixar animator who designed Woody from 'Toy Story,' dies at 83 [in print as Bud Luckey, 83; Created Woody in Pixar's 'Toy Story'


Washington Post March 2 2018 : B5



Animator and story artist Bud Luckey draws Woody, a "Toy Story" character he helped create, in his Pixar office in 2007. (Deborah Coleman/Pixar)


'Have a Nice Day': Chinese neo-noir animation evokes early Tarantino [in print as An animated slide from Tarantino's playbook].




A still image from "Have a Nice Day." (Strand Releasing/Nezha Bros Pictures Company Limited/Le-joy Animation Studio)

March 29: Jeremy Whitley at Hooray for Books

Meet the Author: Jeremy Whitley


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Jeremy Whitley is a comic book author who creates stories featuring empowered female characters. His original series, Princeless, has been nominated for two Eisner Awards. He also writes stories for licensed properties such as My Little Pony and Marvel's Wasp. Jeremy will lead a discussion about why he thinks comics are awesome and about his desire to create comic books that he wants his young daughter to someday love.

This is a fantastic event for fans of comic books and graphic novels, and recommended for readers ages 8 and up.

Unable to make it to this event? You still can get a signed and personalized copy of a book! Give us a call at 703-548-4092 or email order@hooray4books.com by Mon., March 26.

ABOUT PRINCELESS

Adrienne Ashe never wanted to be a princess. She hates fancy dinners, is uncomfortable in lavish dresses, and has never wanted to wait on someone else to save her.

However, on the night of her 16th-birthday, her parents, the King and Queen, locked her away in a tower guarded by a dragon to await the rescue of some handsome prince. Now Adrienne has decided to take matters into her own hands!

Princeless is the action/adventure for the girl who's tired of waiting to be rescued and ready to save herself!